Maniacal Foreigner
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Wendigoon's lips' so big, black people be going: "You got some big-ass lips!"
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I forgot to mention, the experiment setup reminded me of Liquid Chris saga. Maybe if Chris chan was trolled harder he could have been normal.
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You just know that any story they read from now on with kids or babies involved is going to have an “as a father” side comment. “As a dad, this story about a clown who kidnaps babies and inflates them into balloon animals hits different.”
And I say this as a father.
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Given Wendi's disposition, he's going to tear up a lot more when it's nonfiction.
One of the bald beard longform-YouTube clones, Simon Whistler, now has a couple of children and gets a little verklempt around true crime kids where he didn't before. He apologizes afterwards, not before, and it was interesting listening to him realize things hit him harder now that he has kids.
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New CC ep: The Ocean Is Much Deeper Than We Thought
Hour and a half short maritime story, I’m all in on that alone.
Especially if he has a girl I think his opinion of things like Borrasca or Tommy Taffy is going to harden and he’s not going to let Hunter make quite so many jokes.
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Edgeymcedgename
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Tommy Taffy I kinda understand, not as much Borrasca. I think some one calling Hunter a gross childless weirdo would be hilarious though.
Jarch6
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The maritime pastiche makes for enjoyable horror stories, the "Deep Sea Carpet" story from /x/ is one of my favorites.
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Not gonna lie, I did not care at all for this one. Story moves at a glacial pace for what it covers, and if you're not terrified of the ocean, you're left with a story that's already been done a dozen times already. The creature's pretty cool, I guess... but it's pretty much the Black Carpet minus all the autistic loredumping. Horrible things happening in those EPM suits? Narcosis. Underwater base named after something greek? Obviously SOMA. Nevermind the other myriad of deep sea / undersea / ocean horror games out there.
Actually, I think that's the main problem I have with this story—the whole premise and the way it's structured would be 10x better as a survival horror game than it would as a written narrative. You can get away with the shallow characters since most of the time you're gonna be alone anyway. You can do the large undersea base that is literally impossible to put so deep in our current society, if you just make it sci-fi. The black carpet itself would be a memorable enemy, seeing it engulf the seafloor, and the station, in its mass. Not to mention terrifying. All you need is a way to beat it back long enough for you to progress.
But, as it stands, it's just a dumb nosleep story that doesn't even make any sense to begin with.
Actually, I think that's the main problem I have with this story—the whole premise and the way it's structured would be 10x better as a survival horror game than it would as a written narrative. You can get away with the shallow characters since most of the time you're gonna be alone anyway. You can do the large undersea base that is literally impossible to put so deep in our current society, if you just make it sci-fi. The black carpet itself would be a memorable enemy, seeing it engulf the seafloor, and the station, in its mass. Not to mention terrifying. All you need is a way to beat it back long enough for you to progress.
But, as it stands, it's just a dumb nosleep story that doesn't even make any sense to begin with.
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I like that guy because he understands the assignment. His job is literally to just read scripts for roughly five million channels providing background noise for the menial workers and students of the world, he knows that, and seems like a chill enough dude.
I don’t mind the Casual Criminalist having a more conversational tone where he goes on some tangents, even about his kids. I’d rather see a dad be like “bro, thinking about what this dude did to kids fucks me up because I’m thinking about my kids” than Boomer-tiered jokes about how much he hates his family.
I do wonder how having a kid will change the Goon, it’s not like he’s not been tactful about things already (such as refusing to make a video on Junko Furuta) but let’s be real here Internet horror does lean on child abuse being the scariest thing they can think of a lot. I’ll still defend Elias Witherow’s work, for example, but that’s because there’s a difference between using that for thematic reasons and using it just to be edgy.
If it was a novella-length story it would have worked so much better. The elements were all there for amazing shit, and I liked what we got enough, but it needed to either expand on itself or lose a few things.
Secret government research like the Ocean At Night, a deadly parasitic siphonophore like the Black Carpet, hints of something intelligent and ancient in the abyss, something dangerous getting into your suit like Apollo 19, shit getting fucked in a place you can’t leave where people die one by one like an innumerable amount of sci-fi spaceship movies, there’s nothing about all those elements I don’t love but dawg you need to give the story time to work itself out.
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Cigar makers in Cuba used to (some still) pool their money and pay someone with a strong voice to sit in the middle of the factory and read out loud while they worked. They'd decide as a group what book/magazine/paper they wanted the lector to read next.
I don't have much of a point, just agreeing that there's been a call for this kind of thing for a long time. And yeah, I like Simon Whistler, especially because he explicitly presents himself as just Internet Fact Boi, not an expert or even a guy who completely remembers what he made a video about last week. "In through the eyes, out through the mouth."
Re: fatherhood's effect on Wendi, I'd anticipate he'd be more affected by discussing things that happened to IRL kids than to start weeping at r/nosleep stories using child abuse for cheap pathos. Curating which stories they do based on flavor of content is more likely, but I don't know if they'd even explicitly state that choice.
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Let’s be real, through all of human history we had bards and other people whose job it was to provide either background music or tell stories.
Even the Ancient Greek gymnasiums had flute players on staff, people just like noise in the background and now we have the Internet for that.
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Actually, I was imagining something more like The Call of Cthulu / At the Mountains of Madness: some random guy uncovers an old conspiracy through circumstantial evidence (declassified Cold War-era documents that by themselves are mostly innocuous, but taken together paint a terrible picture). And the whole story is effectively a plea, to the government or whatever company is running this deep sea expedition, telling them they have no idea what they are truly dealing with and they have no hope in ever controlling the creature. You can kinda take it further than that, maybe have this guy try to actually stop the expedition or something to no avail, but that's the basic gist of it.
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I bet you he will use his fatherhood status to provide himself extra authority to complain about CSA in stories.
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Good story. Reminded me a bit of King's "Home Delivery," where a bunch of astronauts get killed by zombie space worms or some shit. Deep sea and deep space horror always hits differently for some reason; that feeling of utter isolation in a terminally hostile environment.
Aso, re: the Wendi dad talk - if anything, Hunter's going to double down on the crude lefty-safe dead baby humor. Wendi will put up a very weak facade of disapproval, but will immediately cave. The man ain't gonna fuck with his meal ticket.
Aso, re: the Wendi dad talk - if anything, Hunter's going to double down on the crude lefty-safe dead baby humor. Wendi will put up a very weak facade of disapproval, but will immediately cave. The man ain't gonna fuck with his meal ticket.
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This is another story that went in one ear and out the other. Idk if it's because of the story itself or I wasn't paying attention, so I guess they'll be getting a 2nd view from me at work today.
Did he? When was that? Absolutely don't blame him though. I've read a lot of fucked shit, and that case still lives rent free in my head. Reading all the details unironically had me shaking mad and I can't remember the last time I was actually that angry.
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I think Talos was the name of the space station in Prey where a borderline eldritch race of alien mimics being studied break containment. Could be a reference to that.
I liked the story, it passes all my vibe checks, but I agree it needs to be longer. Time to sit and explore the characters and to let the tension build. There is some really good mood setting with the bloom of jellyfish and the whale carcasses. It seems like the MC shows up and stuff just happens instead of drawing it out, increasing paranoia. I want a slow burn and this was too fast.
I wish the monster was a bit more flawed to make combatting it more interesting. Right now, it's basically just grey goo, but biological. I'd rather there be some limits on what it can do or how fast it can do it. Something along the lines of while under pressure, it's able to endlessly fuse, but moves at a glacial pace because food is scarce. Then speed it up when its out of ocean crushing pressure while limiting its ability to form new shapes and combine.
You could turn it less into a "oh shit everyone's already infected" and instead into a "while we were busy fighting fucking worms and second guessing which of us were infected we failed to realize the entire station was being slowly consumed".
I liked the story, it passes all my vibe checks, but I agree it needs to be longer. Time to sit and explore the characters and to let the tension build. There is some really good mood setting with the bloom of jellyfish and the whale carcasses. It seems like the MC shows up and stuff just happens instead of drawing it out, increasing paranoia. I want a slow burn and this was too fast.
I wish the monster was a bit more flawed to make combatting it more interesting. Right now, it's basically just grey goo, but biological. I'd rather there be some limits on what it can do or how fast it can do it. Something along the lines of while under pressure, it's able to endlessly fuse, but moves at a glacial pace because food is scarce. Then speed it up when its out of ocean crushing pressure while limiting its ability to form new shapes and combine.
You could turn it less into a "oh shit everyone's already infected" and instead into a "while we were busy fighting fucking worms and second guessing which of us were infected we failed to realize the entire station was being slowly consumed".
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Man the SfX for the episodes really are fuckin awful.
After a 2nd listen this sums up my thunks about the story itself. Do not care one bit for this story.
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He brought it up one time on some podcast or something, said something to the effect that he planned to make a video on it but decided against it as it felt very exploitative to make content on such a horrific case.
And I get that. It is one of the single most evil things someone has done to someone else in human history and there’s plenty of other people who’ve covered it already.
There is no place in Hell bad enough for those creatures, and I mean that.
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The really performative crying in the Ypsilanti video was cringe as fuck and honestly really disgusting. This guy is more of a fag with every video. His youth group energy is nauseating and has gotten way worse.